Fomerla

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fomerla, from 937 m² to 295,004 m² (29.5 ha, 72.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Fomerla in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Fomerla in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fomerla.

Recorded monuments

• CL034-041 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Built by Rory, son of Shane, son of Mahon MacNamara. In 1570 it was owned by Turlough O'Brien, a younger brother of Conor, third Earl of Thomond. Conor was hanged in Galway after 1581, but his son Donagh became the fourth Earl, and Donagh made Formerla over to a Roland Delahoyde in 1585, which was renewed in 1613. In the 1640s Oliver Delahoyde was dispossessed and a John Carroll received Formerla. In 1659 Cnarlse and Donagh Carthy were tenants at Formerla an in the Moland survey of 1703 it is described as a castle out of repair, the remains of an old house, and an orchard and six cabins. Situated at the highest point of a low hillock in a low-lying landscape, and overgrown. One section of the SW wall (L 2.5m NW-SE; H 2.9m; T 1.3m) contains part of an embrasure at the NW end. 4m to the NE are the grassed-covered remains of the NE wall are visible (L 6m), and a collapsed piece of masonry has traces of a window splay and a stepped embrasure of dressed stonework. Compiled by: Leo Morahan and Michael Moore See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 11 December 2014

• CL034-158001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-158002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fomerla.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Fomerla, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fomerla.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Fomerla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Fomerla · Fómarla

Area

1,241,992 m² (124.2 ha, 306.9 acres)

Civil parish

Tulla, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Clooney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

539 people lived in 179 households in the Clooney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyslattery or Newgrove, Caherloghan, Toonagh

Placenames

Fomerla on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.